Proposals for a normalized representation of Standard Arabic full form lexica

Susanne Salmon-Alt (1) , Amine Akrout (1) , Laurent Romary (2)

1 ATILF - Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française
2 LANGUE ET DIALOGUE - Human-machine dialogue with a significant language component

Standardized lexical resources are an important prerequisite for the development of robust and wide coverage natural language processing application. Therefore, we applied the Lexical Markup Framework, a recent ISO initiative towards standards for designing, implementing and representing lexical resources, on a test bed of data for an Arabic full form lexicon. Besides minor structural accommodation that would be needed in order to take into account the traditional root-based organization of Arabic dictionaries, the LMF proposal appeared to be suitable to our purpose, especially because of the separate management of the hierarchical data structure (LMF core model) and elementary linguistic descriptors (data categories)

Mots clés: standards; lexicon; Arabic language; morphology

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Linguistique

Susanne Salmon-Alt, Amine Akrout, Laurent Romary. Proposals for a normalized representation of Standard Arabic full form lexica. International Conference on Machine Intelligence, Nov 2005, Tozeur, Tunisia. ⟨halshs-00004541⟩